Education and Career

After earning his Ph.D., Tucker spent a year as a National Research Fellow at Cambridge, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. He rejoined Princeton as an instructor in 1933. He had become a full professor by 1946.

At Princeton, Tucker advised eleven doctoral theses. One of them, completed by John Nash in 1950, later earned Nash a Nobel Prize in economics. Tucker chaired the department starting in 1953 and retired in 1974.